cron-apt(8)

cron-apt8

Program to update the system using apt-get

Usage

cron-apt [configfile]

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the cron-apt command.

cron-apt is a program that uses the information in /etc/cron-apt/action.d/ as arguments to apt-get line by line in file order.

Options

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.

--help

Show summary of options.

Configuration

Configuration can be done by editing /etc/cron-apt/config and by adding rules to /etc/cron-apt/action.d/ The variables that you can set in /etc/cron-apt/config is documented in the configuration example in /usr/share/doc/cron-apt/examples/config

From version 0.5.0 the optional FILTERCTRLM attribute is deprecated.

Releases

11 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 7 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0
  3. 5.0
  4. 6.0
  5. 7
  6. 8
  7. 9
  8. 10–13

Author

This manual page was written by Ola Lundqvist [email protected] for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). This manual is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

From cron-apt 0.13.0.1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.